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Wed, Oct 12 2011 16:43:20

#editreport

How does it look when I'm going through the submission reports the editors send me? What do we see when we're reading through the slush pile? Here's some of what I see from our 15 freelance editors reading slush!

  1. angelajames
    Okay! Let's do some #editreport. I'll be tweeting a lot for the next bit, so you might want to mute the #editreport hashtag.
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:25:30
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  2. angelajames
    Here's how #editreport works: There are 15 freelance editors who read slush. They send reports to me, I sift thru them & pull quotes for you
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:27:09
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  3. angelajames
    #editreport of course, I'm also sifting through them and moving submissions around appropriately at the same time :P
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:28:03
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  4. angelajames
    #editreport I'll start with the rejection reports, and at the end, will pull quotes from recent acquisition reports
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:28:55
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  5. angelajames
    Frm 2 diff reports: "Way too much info drop at the beginning" "excessive info drop in the narrative and dialogue" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:39:47
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  6. angelajames
    Frm 2 diff books: "The writing feels choppy and unsophisticated"; "it felt overwritten and excessively dramatic in its prose" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:34:10
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  7. angelajames
    "little to no tension and I wasn't caught up in the story...the pacing is slow and drags" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:41:45
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  8. angelajames
    "had one of the most disorienting first chapters I've ever read in a manuscript. I honestly have no idea what happened" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:42:39
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  9. angelajames
    Frm 2 diff reports: "dramatic and over-the-top" "prologue is so ripe with purple prose" (she included a sample...I agree!) #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:44:53
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  10. angelajames
    "1st chapter was fairly well-written, but not really engaging..." #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:46:14
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  11. angelajames
    "...standard popular trope, didn't sparkle enough in its delivery to make me want to keep reading." #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:46:34
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  12. meganrecords
    I shake my head "yes" at pretty much everything @angelajames says on #editreport. Highly recommend reading her tweets. #sotrue
    meganrecords
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:47:33
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  13. angelajames
    "This...romance is okay, but it would need a lot of work and I wasn't engaged enough in the opening pages to want to tackle it." #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:48:17
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  14. angelajames
    "The story was decently written but not engaging." #editreport (seeing a lot of this!)
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:49:08
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  15. greyhausagency
    @angelajames What readers should note is that comments we are seeing are common to agents and editors. We see the same thing daily!
    greyhausagency
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:50:53
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  16. gwalli
    Per @angelajames #editreport - Rule 1: Don't bore the reviewer. Rule 2: Don't bore the reviewer. Rule 3: Don't bore the reviewer.
    gwalli
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:51:18
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  17. angelajames
    "This...romance is riddled with errors and cliches." #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:51:32
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  18. angelajames
    "The writing is good, but the characters aren't appealing." #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:52:59
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  19. angelajames
    "This...romance is well-written, but the concept itself was just a little too unbelievable for me to suspend disbelief" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:53:46
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  20. angelajames
    "writing was fairly decent, but the story wasn't compelling enough." #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:56:19
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  21. angelajames
    From diff reports: "She was whiny....not well characterized" "heroine isn't characterized except having X color hair" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:57:29
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  22. jenroland
    Read @angelajames's #editreport tweets. Great play-by-play of the work she is reviewing. Use her tweets to make your #writing better.
    jenroland
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:57:39
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  23. angelajames
    "there's some funny stuff in here, but the setup isn't quite working for me, and the characters sound really young" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 13:58:19
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  24. angelajames
    "This...romance plunges you right in the middle of a scene but doesn't really explain it" #editreport (the opposite of info dump!)
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 14:00:01
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  25. angelajames
    "...starts w/ 6 pges of encyclopedic-type entry...cld be a good concept but beginning dragged...had a hard time staying engaged" #editreport
    angelajames
    Wed, Oct 12 2011 14:02:20
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